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TIL Little Bumps on F & J Keys on a Computer Keyboard Are For The Index Fingers to Locate Their "Home Row" Position

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OoGNe TIL of Lee Lorch a mathematician blacklisted in the 50s by most US universities for his civil rights activism. Before his death in 2014 he was asked if he would have done anything any differently. "More and better of the same," he replied.
OG5K7 TIL that sports commentator Al Michaels has never knowingly eaten a vegetable his entire life.
o89W TIL that the band, The Rolling Stones, would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961. Richards struck up a conversation with Jagger about the blues records that he was carrying. The connection was instant and the rest is history.
jNX5a TIL Brigham Young, governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1858, had a granddaughter who lived until 2004.
ZxJ4 TIL a town in North Carolina, fed up with Time Warner, built their own isp called Greenlight. Time Warner’s response was to lobby the state senate.